Donald Qualls wrote:

> Picture two gyroscopes with opposite spin 
> directions, and the frames locked rigidly together.  When you tilt them, 
> one gyro tries to precess one way, the other tries to precess the other 
> way.  If the angular moments of inertia and angular momenta are 
> identical, the two precessions will cancel, leaving you with a 
> gyroscopic device that will simply fall over instead of precessing.


If you need further proof, isn't this what most people do when they have
something rotating where they *don't* want gyroscopic effects?  For
instance, in a helicopter: if all you have is your main rotor, you want
to be able to tilt, since that gives you the ability to translate
forward/reverse and left/right - split the main rotor's thrust into
vertical and horizontal components.  One not-too-uncommon way to do
this is to have two main rotors, spinning in opposite directions.  (A
slight difference in rotation speeds can also let you induce angular
momentum, turning the helicopter left/right.)

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